eep stretch’d afar, in floods of beams. An inn or an alehouse, however, was at the time of the Conquest and for long after, far to seek. In the reign of Edward I. there were only three taverns in London, one in Chepe, one in Wallbrooke, and one in Lombard Street, and in country districts the… … three in Ipswich, three in Winchester, three in Colchester, and four in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Even parsonages seem to have been licensed as alehouses in very out-of-the-way districts. A survival of this custom, almost to our own times, is mentioned by Southey, who states that the parsonage house of…
Drinking customs · Drinking vessels · Ale · Beer · Brewing industry
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